W lodach Prowansji. Bunin na wygnaniu

Early 1940s: the Germans occupy France, and Ivan Bunin watches from Grasse. Behind him lie everything that once gave him strength: old Russia, love and literary success. The book uncovers his affair with the poet Galina Kuznetsova, carried on inside his marriage to Vera Muromtseva, until Galina left him for a woman; follows him to Sweden for the Nobel Prize; shows him naked and hungry, writing love stories, swearing like a sailor and going at André Gide with a butcher's knife. Diaries of Kuznetsova, Muromtseva and Bunin let them speak in their own voices.

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About the book

Form

Nonfiction

Length

430 pages in the original

Genres

Historical, Love, War (assigned by AI)

Set in

France, Sweden, 1930s–1940s

First published

2015 by Wydawnictwo Sic!

Author's age

45 when first published

ISBN

9788361967842 (original)